The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

COP 28 and the Smoke Under the Door | Frankly #50

Dec 8, 2023

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Exploring social conformity and fear in discussions around climate change. Questions raised about global carbon emissions and the growth of coal capacity. Discussing ecological overshoot and proposing alternative approaches. Addressing the challenges of climate change and potential consequences. Exploring the idea of modern humans in caves and proposing technology for effective discussions.

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Quick takeaways

Understanding the reasons behind the failure of climate change meetings is crucial for making progress in combating climate change.

Acknowledging the limitations and ecological consequences of renewable energy expansion is necessary for developing realistic plans for addressing climate change.

Deep dives

Why have we failed to limit global carbon emissions in 36 meetings?

Despite 36 meetings on climate change, we have failed to effectively limit global carbon emissions. This raises the question of why these meetings have not been successful in addressing this issue. It is crucial to understand the reasons behind this failure in order to make progress in combating climate change.

Introduction

3min

Challenges and Questions Regarding Global Carbon Emissions

3min

Exploring Ecological Overshoot and Climate Change Mitigation

4min

Convening Parties vs. Converging Systems: Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change

3min

In this week’s Frankly, we join Nate in a fascinating thought experiment imagining participants in this week’s COP 28 in Dubai are liberated from the usual social sorting mechanisms which constrain real, forthright, challenging conversation around solving our most dire issues. What questions might participants ask at COP28 if there were no fear of losing social status and how might this liberation change the conversation around global heating? As social primates, there is a stainless steel ceiling on how much we can say in large groups of other humans -especially high status ones. Like the famous “smoke under the door” experiment of the 1970s, as the events of our world get more complex and more threatening, our first reality filter is observing the response of contemporaries. If they are unconcerned, we too tend to be. Unlike the one-room controlled college experiment, we now live in a smoke filled world, and the stakes couldn't be higher. If you were sitting in Dubai at the convening of COP 28, what question would you ask given the state of the world right now??

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